In no particular order here are sports movies that I enjoy watching.
1. The Mighty Ducks
2. Mighty Ducks 2
3. Slap Shot
4. Major League
5. the Little Giants
6. Ace Ventura Pet Detective: hilarious movie with the Miami Dolphins in the movie
7. the Bad News Bears: the original not the remake
8. Caddyshack
9. Happy Gilmore
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Slap Shot
Hoosiers
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Any Given Sunday
Remember the Titans
Eight Men Out
Rocky
White Men Can't Jump
Happy Gilmore
Major League
Moneyball
Dogeball
Jerry McGuire
Caddyshack
The Natural
The Blind Side
The Mighty Ducks
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Hoosiers
The Natural
Field of Dreams
fun movies -but far distant behind the first two
Happy Gilmore
Dodgeball
The Replacements
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Million Dollar Baby
Rocky I, II
Hoosiers
The Blind Side
Coach Carter
Remember the Titans
Marshall
Major League
Slap Shot
As much as I love Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore, I just don't view golf as a sport...same as race car driving, be it Formula 1, Indy or NASCARLast edited: Jul 20, 2017Boik14 likes this. -
I've read through the posts so far and I gotta question everything when there's no mention of Rudy, Brian's Song, Tin Cup, or Miracle..... and no mention of The Hustler, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Sea Biscuit, 8 Seconds, or A League of their Own? ...... or no Days of Thunder, Breaking Away, The Express, The Program, The Waterboy, Varsity Blues, or Necessary Roughness?..... or no We are Marshall, Coach Carter, The Hurricane, Legend of Bagger Vance, Ali, Radio, or The Rookie?
You guys need to watch more movies. :D ....especially the opening poster. :tongue2:Boik14 likes this. -
A league of their own was blah imo. Varsity Blues was another one of my faves I accidentally forgot about. How, I don't know. Ali Landry in a whip cream bikini will forever be etched in my mind :lol:ToddPhin likes this. -
Two of the movies you listed, I did list. -
I like how the campus and classroom scenes in The Program were filmed at Duke however. Guess they didn't feel SC's campus was worthy enough. :tongue2:Boik14 likes this. -
Baseball - The Natural, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, Major League
Football - Any Given Sunday, The Program, Remember the Titans
Hockey - Slap Shot, Miracle
Basketball - Blue Chips, Hoosiers
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**** Rudy.
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1. Rocky IV - Ivan Drago fan (he's gonna be in Creed 2)
2. Million Dollar Baby - Emotional
3. Friday Night Lights - Accuracy of small town football was spot-on.
4. Above the Rim - Classic; Tupac
5. Little Giants - Al Bundy coaching football, lol.
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Most of the time, I just don't enjoy sports movies as dramas. At best, the sport itself is minimized and only used as a backdrop to tell some other story. At worst, they get everything wrong and its too distracting. For me, comedies translate much better, because even if its over the top and silly, thats part of the fun. I agree with Ohio Fanatic's list, and also add Baseketball, which while make believe and intentionally silly, is at its heart a sports movie also, and a good parody of sports at the time that fans are about to enjoy more than the rest of the audience.
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